Does Michael McIntyre's daily struggle sound familiar to you?
A roundup of the hilarious parenting content from the week, guaranteed to make you smile, if not laugh out loud. Plus the odd helpful tips.
Happy Saturday Dads!
Anyone else think parenting has messed with their grasp of the English language?
Lately we’ve either been speaking exclusively in baby voices or communicating with our partner as if it were a Spelling Bee. Words like ‘marshmallow’ now take an absolute age to spit out.
Thankfully we know just the right person to help us:
Coming up this week…
The average time it takes to get the kids out of the house
Cooking for toddlers doesn’t need to be rocket science
Michael McIntyre perfectly sums up parenting
As always, if you enjoyed this week’s edition and think you might know someone else who would, please do share. We know how tough being a parent can be, and sometimes you just need a moment to laugh at some of the craziness.
Thanks for reading, and enjoy that beer once it finally comes.
Fred @
(a fellow dad of 2)
As seen on Insta
The links below will take you to the relevant platform and you do not need an account to watch the videos; they are just a little light relief to make you smile on a Saturday morning.
It’s all in the numbers
Do you, like us, dread the marathon that is getting the kids out of the house in the morning?
That decision to empower your toddler to choose their own wardrobe may have sounded sweet initially, but it’ll get old very quickly.
From your baby’s nappy explosion just as you’re leaving the house to your child pulling off the socks, shoes, gloves and hat you just spent hours wrestling them into, leaving the house rarely goes to plan.
A study published back in August found that the average time it takes a UK parent to get the kids up and out is 43 minutes! That sounds about right, well, on a good day.
Rather annoyingly, 36% of parents in the study confessed they struggled to even get their kids out of bed in the morning. If only that was the problem.
Here are a few helpful tips you could try to expedite the whole process:
put your child to bed in their school clothes
pack the nursery bag / nappy bag the night before
take a picnic breakfast in the car
And if you haven’t already resorted to this, congratulations, but bribes, bribes, bribes.
They will thank you
For anyone lucky enough to have a partner taking the lead role in feeding their kids, you’ve probably heard how challenging they find it getting your child to actually eat the thing they’ve slaved away preparing.
Make their day by either sharing some of these instagram accounts, or better still, trying a few of the recipes yourself.
After testing a few of them at For Dads HQ, we can attest to their simplicity:
Example recipe: RASPBERRY RIPPLE ROLL UPS
🍞 2 slices of bread, crusts removed
💕 handful of raspberries (around 8-10)
🧀 approx 2 heaped tsp cream cheese
🥚 1 egg
Full recipe here.
Example recipe: FROZEN YOGHURT BARK
🍌 100g over ripe bananas, sliced
🫐 100g blueberries
🍨 150g Greek yogurt
🍓 75g mixed fruits
Full recipe here.
Dad hack of the week
This dad proving tough love can sometimes be fun for everyone involved.
Link here.
How the stars do it
Locating disappearing shoes, messing with zips and calling your toddler’s bluff, Michael McIntyre documents the daily battles we’re all familiar with.
Festive dad
Like John Lewis, we’re also going to kick off the festive season with a Christmas TV ad, but no, not the one you expect.
It may not feature Andrea Bocelli’s dulcet tones, but this French advert gets our vote for its heartwarming dad-related content.
Upcoming dates that it might be worth having up your sleeve:
World Toilet Day | 19th November; you may do with that information what you will [link]
Road Safety Week | 19-25th November; there’s no better time than now to enforce strict road-crossing rules
Universal Children’s Day | 20th November; you would be forgiven for thinking this was just every day in your family, but use this time to think about less privileged kids around the world
That’s it for this week folks.
Thanks again for reading, as always we leave you with one HILARIOUS joke to share with the family.
What’s Forrest Gump’s laptop password?
1forrest1
source: @dadjokes
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